Posted on 04/01/2024 5:52:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
Former MTV star Connor Smith has been arrested in Florida for child sex crimes following a year-long search.
Law enforcement tracked down Smith on Thursday at a residence in Clearwater, Florida.
The officer arrested Smith, 33, on an open warrant originating from Lake County, Illinois.
The warrant was issued in February 2023.
Page Six reported:
The former reality star went on the run after allegedly being caught interacting with an undercover officer who was posing as a minor for “several weeks” online.
At the time, Illinois police claimed Smith had sent explicit videos and images of himself to the officer, thinking they were a 15-year-old girl.
Smith allegedly planned a meet-up with the minor to engage in sexual acts. When he tried to carry out his alleged plan in February 2023, the reality TV star was greeted by detectives.
Smith, however, was able to escape and fled in his vehicle.
According to a report from The Blaze, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced that detectives obtained a nationwide arrest warrant for Smith.
Smith was accused of committing three felonies:
Traveling to meet a minor
Grooming
Disseminating harmful material
Smith attempted to groom a girl under the age of 15 and meet her for sex in Illinois, according to police.
Police added that Smith communicated with a girl under the age of 15 for several weeks. However, the girl was actually an undercover detective.
The snare was part of an undercover sting to catch child predators.
Smith reportedly sent the “girl” sexually explicit photos and videos of himself before trying to meet the “child” for sex on Feb. 9, 2023.
When Smith went to meet the girl, detectives attempted to arrest him, but he escaped the authorities.
In December 2021, Smith was arrested for alleged rape and assault of a girl, 16, in Indiana.
He was later charged with felony rape, sexual battery, and two counts of criminal confinement.
Page Six added:
The young girl claimed Smith forced her to perform oral sex on him while he drove them to a motel. She also alleged he was “slapping and choking her multiple times, urinating on her in the motel room, and forcing oral sex again.”
However, the charges were later dropped after the alleged victim stopped cooperating with investigators and prosecutors.
Smith appeared in the third season of the MTV reality series and dating show “Are You The One?” in 2015.
Smith found the “perfect match,” but the couple split up after filming the reality TV show.
Another sodomite bites the dust.
Maybe he can get transferred to Cali and become cellies with Danny Masterson.
also, “MTV star”
Those two words should never be uttered in the same sentence......at least not after the 80s 😏
A year long search?
He was at his house!
When I was a teenager in Jacksonville, there was a small, square park right in the middle of downtown. Can’t remember the name and don’t know if it’s even still there, but the joke was it was going to be renamed because of all the homos hanging out there to ‘Peter Sellers Park’............
OOps! It says “a residence”.
More coffee please.
I think your referring to Hemming Plaza/park......of course they changed the name recently to some black guy nobody ever heard of that was born here in 1871 no less, because you know......racism. 😏
“Star” has to be the most misused word in journalism.
The fact that one appeared on TV, or in a movie, does not make that person a star.
That label should be reserved for outstanding performances, multiple times, and acclaimed by the public, not some award show put on by one’s peers.
I doubt there is even one actual “MTV star”.
Yes, I think that’s it.
It was where the bus lines all met from all over Jax and you could get a transfer to another line to take you to the beach or wherever...............
MTV no longer was MTV when it started down the road of airing fabricated reality. Twisted voyeurism. The “Real World” was anything but real, yet thousands and thousands of teens (mostly girls) became addicted to this overnight. The endless shows about anything but music turned it into the cess pool it is now.
There is no music on MTV......................
MTV was only good at their beginning when it was just music and music videos.
Sick.
People in porn movies are almost exclusively referred to as “porn stars”......I never understood that.
If there was ever a misuse of a term, that one is surely it.
“MTV was only good at their beginning when it was just music and music videos”
Yep and you can thank David Bowie for ruining that.....in an interview with MTV in the 80s he asked the interviewer why there weren’t any black artists on mtv.....and here we go.
And now what do we have? Black entertainment television with no white people within 10 miles of it and MTV is completely unwatchable. 🤷
I just saw my first porno last week ......I was so young
A SMALL comedy perhaps?
At the time, Illinois police claimed Smith had sent explicit videos and images of himself to the officer, thinking they were a 15-year-old girl.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A single officer is not “they.” Who are these idiots who don’t know the difference between singular and plural pronouns?
Life long Democrat?
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